Peter Cuppin

Peter Cuppin (1759-1778) was a soldier in the Continental Army from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War. He was killed at the Battle of Elizabethtown in 1778.

Biography
Peter Cuppin was born in South Carolina in 1759, and he came to admire the Patriots during the American Revolutionary War. In 1776, Cuppin, John Allen, Nathaniel Ball, William Debole, Joseph Dill, Benjamin Ward, Jacob Whitfield, George Randolf, James Prescott, John Warren, Josiah Graves, Ezra Straw, Charles Howard, William Mercer, Robert Stark, Samuel Rollins, Josiah Garrick, Christopher Peale, James Potter, Frances Levant, Henry Chapman, Edward Irving, Robert Clark, William Lusk, Arthur Johnson, Joshua Stuart, Thomas Mills, Silas Randolph, James Defoe, George Franklin, Daniel Clinton, and two other men joined the Continental Army, serving under Harry Burwell in George Washington's army. In 1778, Cuppin was shot in the heart at the Battle of Elizabethtown, and his friend Gabriel Martin was pulled away by other soldiers while trying to check if Cuppin was still alive.